About

"The
Greek goddess Athena was frequently called upon to
settle disputes between the gods or various mortals.
Athena Goddess of Wisdom was known for her superb
logic and intellect. Her decisions were usually well-considered,
highly ethical, and seldom motivated by self-interest."

ATHENa: Automated Tools for
Hardware
EvaluatioN is a project started at George Mason
University,
aimed at fair, comprehensive, and automated evaluation of
hardware cryptographic
cores targeting FPGAs, All Programmable Systems on Chip, and ASICs.

Our project has been inspired by a similar environment for
comparing
software implementations of cryptography, developed by Daniel
Bernstein
and Tanja Lange, called eBACS (ECRYPT Benchmarking of Cryptographic
Systems).

Our design and benchmarking methodologies allow the comparison of

Cryptographic algorithms, e.g. candidates in the SHA-3 and CAESAR contests